#dictated

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. ↗

— Edward Koch

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I can never consent to being dictated to. ↗

— John Tyler

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But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

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